Comment by nmeyer

We use node+express for everything at MileWise. I put together a starter project for quickly bootstrapping new projects that's ready to go using our favorite set of tools:

Expres, Jade, Stylus+Bootstrap-Stylus, Passport (for auth), Mongode (MongoDb-native wrapper)

Maybe it'll help you get started! It's ready to be deployed to heroku or node-jitsu etc. And I use mongohq for new projects until they get bigger.

EDIT: link... https://github.com/milewise/sideproject